Gina Valentino
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A. California State University, Fullerton
B.A. California State University, Fullerton
Office: 308H Swan Hall
Phone: 401-874-9434
E-Mail: valentino@mail.uri.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Gina Valentino’s research interests in contemporary comparative ethnic and literary studies include class mobility, globalization and neoliberalism, gambling and U.S. culture, American Indian, Asian American, African American and Chicana/o literatures. She is co-editor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits (Temple UP). Her current book project, Hustling: Work, Survival, and U.S. Literature in the New Economy, analyzes race and working-class identities in late-twentieth century U.S. ethnic literatures.
